scandal

I know I had to do a double-take when I saw the headlines, too. An apparent snafu has lead to the WORLDWIDE delay of LittleBigPlanet, according to Eurogamer. For LittleBigPlanet fans, the news will probably range somewhere between “devastating” and “holy mother of god this is $^&*&($ that this $&%%#% isn’t coming out.”

To get in more detail, the Quran text appears in one of the songs in the game. According to some posts on the Sony European forums, the phrases in the song “Swingin’ Safari” roughly translate to:

“Every soul shall have the taste of death”
and
“All that is on earth will perish”

Strangely, I have no problem with this, but I can see how that may be inappropriate for a game about cute SackBoys and SackGirls. Sony wants to head off the controversy and remove the songs from the game. Instead of launching next week, the launch has been delayed Nov. 14, according to GameIndustry.biz

And those early copies of LittleBigPlanet are probably going to be collector’s items. I got mine. I checked on eBay and so far going prices for LittleBigPlanet games are going for $59.99 or there abouts. This is all infinite sadness for the gaming community.

UPDATE: The good folks over at the PlayStation blog say the North American release will be delayed until Oct. 27. Hey, it’s better than November.